Although one certainly cannot draw conclusions from this, it raises some interesting questions:

Might Plimpton actually have been CIA himself?

Might his presence at the Ambassador have been connected to the assassination plot?

One wonders why this detail has not emerged before–at least we’ve never heard of George Plimpton’s presence at the Ambassador before. Plimpton was noteworthy and it is “curious” that this detail has remained eclipsed over all these years. (After the publication of this post, a number of readers/listeners supplied references to the Plimpton/RFK assassination link. See the comments below.

If, in fact, Plimpton was CIA, was he part of the “Democratic Party/Good Guy” CIA (as described by John Loftus) or the much larger, much more powerful GOP/transnational corporate/Underground Reich CIA?

EXCERPT: . . . .He would sort of pop up around the edges of these important moments in history. For example, he was standing next to Robert Kennedy when he was assassinated in Los Angeles, and George literally helped disarm and subdue the attacker,” says Bean. . . .

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Pete Hamill described this scene in the Village Voice: June 13, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 35

“The scene assumed a kind of insane fury, all jump cuts, screams, noise, hurtling bodies, blood. The shots went pap-pap-pap-pap-pap, small sharp noises like a distant firefight or the sound of firecrackers in a backyard. Rosey Grier of the Los Angeles Rams came from nowhere and slammed his great bulk into the gunman, crunching him against a serving table. George Plimpton grabbed the guy’s arm, and Rafer Johnson moved to him, right behind Bill Barry, Kennedy’s friend and security chief, and they were all making deep animal sounds and still the bullets came.”

Plimpton at the Ambassador has been mentioned in a cursory fashion. Turner & Christian p. 197 of Carroll & Graf edition Assassination of RFK and Talbot’s Brothers p. 367 Free Press hardcover edition. But more effort
has gone into discrediting Shane O’Sullivans’s documentary alleging the presence of CIA operatives Joannides, Morales and Campbell at the Ambassador.
Was Plimpton the other CIA man there?